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   by rolandog 2y ago

   I'll go try to answer these for myself, but — using the "both things can be true" argument — I have a couple if follow-up questions: 1. Do they still require transfer of copyright to IEEE? 2. Or, conversely, do they publish p
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   by rolandog 2y ago

   Perhaps a naïve question, but hasn't this problem been solved by the FreeNet Project (now HyphaNet) [0]? (the re-write — current FreeNet — was previously called Locutus, IIRC [1]). Side note: As an outsider, and someone who hasn't
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   by rolandog 2y ago

   I think you may be referring to the Lulu Garcia-Navarro interview [0]. It's so good! I was pleasantly surprised to hear that they have 12 researchers (fact-checkers) and a bunch of lawyers (in addition to the writers) that are workin
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   by rolandog 2y ago

   Could you elaborate a bit more? I'm interested to know on which topic did Last Week Tonight miss the mark (and, why do you consider they had a hidden agenda?).
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   by rolandog 2y ago

   I disagree. The phrase "doing one's own research" has been co-opted by people doing conspiracy-windowshopping. It's designed to get lazy people stuck in the muck while sending them on a Shawshank-Redemption-style crawl
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   by rolandog 2y ago

   Just for posterity, I couldn't find the specific podcast episode, but there are public statements from some of the victims [0] available online (translated): > What personally hurt you the most about how you were treated? > Derya
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   by rolandog 2y ago

   I hadn't thought of it that way. My personal explanation for the Fermi Paradox is that it's darn-tootin' hard overcoming our economic and political systems' unsustainability: once a certain amount of hurt and/or di
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   by rolandog 2y ago

   That's awful. Reminds me of the Dutch childcare benefits scandal [0], where 26,000 families were unfairly labeled as having committed tax fraud (11,000 of which had been targeted via "risk profiling", as they had dual nationa
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   by rolandog 2y ago

   I think a part of the scope of this project may have already been solved by The FreeNet Project (now HyphaNet) [0]. [0]: https://www.hyphanet.org/
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Another thing commonly left out of these napkin math scenarios is cyber security risk... it may make sense to cut down on human resources, but you better make sure your drone fleet won't be commandeered by an adversarial nation-state&#
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Could it be that it defaults to "if you don't have anything nice to say about the murderous clown [0] / crazy horse [1], refuse to say anything?". As an informed outsider of American politics, I can't help but be su
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Although our day-to-day devices are not meant to be explosive devices (and boy, are they unstable despite our best efforts [0]). I can't help but feel like a line was crossed by whomever performed that type of supply-chain attack: the
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    I imagine that things like provisioning are essential to people that switch computers often. So it's not a dotfile-specific problem, but more of a dotfile-adjacent problem. There's so many interesting edge-cases that affect UX ev
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Heh. At a $SOME_PREVIOUS_EMPLOYER, they literally disabled the option to log overtime in the portal, because workers were "getting confused", and the official policy was "no overtime".
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    That's ingenious! Do they have a model with airco and a beer-dispensing straw? ... Asking for a friend.
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Agreed. They're just too big to care.
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Great article! As someone who has inherited poorly documented and maintained codebases (and that has worked in the chemical engineering world), this article hits home on so many points. This should be normalized as best practice or at the
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    > Have we really gone past the first point? I think it will always depend on who you ask, and if they're arguing in bad faith: "Sure, the sentry bot can mistakenly shoot and kill its own owner and/or family, but only if th
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    > But instead they live in fantasy of becoming next Netflix and burn in billions of dollars in debt. Hell, even ~15+ years ago I knew not to fall for cargo-culting arguments of "come work for us; when we're as valuable as Faceb
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    I think that corporations' leadership (and anyone that aided in the process) not being held criminally accountable, not being stripped of their ill-gotten gains, and not having to pay reparations for the damages they caused is a very s
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    > Btw, bying an apartment in Barcelona costs you 10% tax already, that probably discourages most speculation (and the prices have been stagnant for a couple of years). I'm not too sure those measures deter those who are filthy-rich.
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Wow. This is nature's mechanism for lazy evaluation.
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    The future is now (-ish, [0])! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589515
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    And at the very least, it'll serve as a good indicator of which companies don't view enshittification as a mistake/phase, but rather a goal/lifestyle.
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Bash/POSIX shell, Docker, Fortran, JavaScript (ES6, Node, React), LaTeX, Linux, Make, PHP, Python (numpy, pandas, mypy, unittest, pytest
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    I think NoScript does that as well (it has a LAN checkbox).
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    "Microsoft: best Linux salesperson!"
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    I read that as Weird Al as well, and was very much confused.
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    These news will not sit well with the "the clothes are made out of textile microphones" people [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316918 Ah, wait, that's me.
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    by rolandog 2y ago

    Or, better yet, glass containers! (So you don't have to rely on PFAS-riddled or plastic-based coatings on cardboard packaging).